3 . I’m at the salon and my hairdresser Kristi Lauren is talking rubbish. To be precise, what she tells me is pretty dumbfounding, that is, exactly how much waste her salon recycles: last year it was 1.25 tonnes. Everything from hair to shampoo bottles is recycled in innovative ways. Her waste is collected by Waste Free Systems, a social enterprise.

Lauren explains the problem, “Our colour tubes are boxed, and they can have a paper ingredient (成分) list as well as the plastic cover and the metal tube. All our product bottles. Then there' s all that cut hair, and the unused colour that would normally be washed down the sink.”

Waste Free Systems charges a fee for collecting the waste, and money raised by selling recycled materials goes to charities. Lauren, who runs an eight-chair salon, says, “It's a small price to pay. It ends up being just about $ 2 per client — we call it a green tax .”

Paul Frasca is the co-founder of Sustainable Salons，a similar service which now works with almost 1,000 hairdressing salons and beauty salons across Australia and New Zealand. Frasca says many salons are now using their green programs actively as a marketing strategy. “The environmentally aware consumer is now the most important customer on the market. So it doesn't just make environmental sense.”

Both programs are researching new ways to redirect waste. Waste Free Systems is using hair to provide nutrients for plants, while Sustainable Salons makes hair products for cleaning up oil leakage. Sustainable Salons has partnered with Dresden Vision to turn plastic shampoo bottles into frames（框架）for eyeglasses. Waste Free Systems has experimented with turning plastic bottles into 3D printing material.

Please Protect Our Environment

8 . The problem of global warming has caused a lot of people to get started on increasing their battles to save the Earth's ecological system. The trouble is that nearly all people think it even expensive to begin living green. Continue reading to see several immediate things you can do to get on the road to living green.

You can get on a great start by learning to recycle. While this appears really simple, there are many people who still throw glass bottles and aluminum（铝）cans into their common garbage. In the US, it's easy to locate a trash service that has glass and aluminum recycling alternatives. If you take a few seconds to wash the cans and bottles and put them in the recycle bin, you will be on the path to saving the Earth.

One more big waste product is newspapers. Majority of people will merely take their newspaper and throw it in the garbage when they finish reading it. Still there are many other things you can do with an old newspaper when you finish reading it. For instance, newspapers make terrific material for cleaning windowpanes. You can clean your windows with newspapers rather than paper towels and window cleaner for a streak-free shine.

What else you can do to get started living green is to start walking a bit more. Many people think nothing of getting in their car and driving one block to get soda at the local convenience store. If you merely walk to the store, not only could it take less time, because you won't have to try to find a parking place, but you will be saving money on petrol and helping to save the planet by not burning those fuels. If you wish to save even more on fuel, take the chance to join the car pool whenever you can and just mow your lawn twice a month instead of weekly.

10 . Waitrose has stopped giving out plastic toys along with its in-store magazines following a 10-year-old girl’s campaign.

Skey, from Gwynedd, Wales, launched the campaign against plastic toys being included in children’s magazines after becoming concerned that they would all end up in landfills. She told the BBC that the toys were “cheap plastic rubbish”, which had a very short lifespan and cannot easily be recycled. In a letter to a children’s magazine publisher she said that people would not buy the toys if they saw them separately in a shop.

Waitrose said many children’s magazines contained free plastic toys—even though many of the youngsters they are aimed at care about the planet and pollution. Over the next eight weeks, it will be removing magazines containing the free toys from its shelves, and is urging publishers to replace “pointless plastic” with sustainable alternatives. The company said the move was inspired by the 10-year-old.

“While we know these magazines are popular with children, some of the plastic attached to them has become more than necessary,” Marija Rompani, partner and director of sustainability at Waitrose, said. “Many in the younger generation really care about the planet and are the ones inheriting the problem of plastic pollution. We urge publishers to find alternatives, and other retailers to follow our lead in ending the pointless plastic that comes with children’s magazines.”

The retailer has written to magazine distributors asking for alternatives to plastic toys and warning that they will not sell copies which contain such toys.

It is the latest move by the supermarket to cut down on single-use plastic, which has also seen it end the sale of Christmas biscuits with plastic toys, and has a plan to make all its own-label packaging recycled or reusable by 2023.